On the future of Europe

Is the EU one of the greatest social experiments of our times?

I love Europe – who doesn’t? But lately I have come to realise that I love Europe in the way that people more easily love things they don’t really understand. Knowing about Europe’s peppered and challenging history is one thing. Understanding its future, is another.

Nuremberg, Germany old town on the Pegnitz River.

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In the neighbourhood: Indonesia

None of us can say that we have seen Indonesia, although a group of us from Australia have just returned from an immersive visit here. It was a glimpse, maybe, into a kaleidoscope on a particular week in a particular year: each tiny piece of life telling a reflected and vibrant story, together seeming to form a discernable and mesmerising pattern. Yet look again in just a second and you will see something completely different.

Jakarta, Indonesia: rush hour

To generalise from such a brief insight might be foolish, yet not to describe the wonder of being there, dismissive.

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